Date
2008 - Present

Name
AFOSR: Information Fusion and Performance Modeling with Distributed Sensor Networks Project

Where
GMU

Description
Distributed information and data fusion with a suite of sensor systems provide core capabilities to numerous applications such as situational awareness, surveillance, navigation, and tracking. The increasing capabilities and ubiquity of computing technologies and data networks continue to advance information exploitation abilities for combining data from multiple remote sources to produce increased value. The goal of this research effort is to develop and demonstrate the strength of the fusion methodologies to integrate multi-source information and to assess fusion performance for better decision process. To fully exploit the capabilities of networked sensor systems, modeling and performance evaluation methodologies are critical in order to optimally design and effectively evaluate fusion performance of multiple heterogeneous sensor data. We will develop a methodology for the off-line evaluation of the performance of netted sensor data fusion systems. This methodology is designed to predict both kinematic and classification fusion performance which will aid in the design and configuration (architecture, communication protocols, fusion rules) of distributed sensor networks.

Date
2008 - Present

Name
ONR: Predictive Situation Assessment with Multi-Entity Probabilistic Ontologies Project

Where
GMU

Description
In current Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) operational environments, war fighters require technologies to support information needs regardless of location and operational situation. In this effort, GMU proposes to develop mathematically rigorous and computationally efficient algorithms, techniques, and tools to characterize and distinguish situational conditions for predictive analysis and impact assessment under various behaviors and environments. The proposed state-of-the-art technologies are grounded in multi-entity Bayesian networks (MEBN), probabilistic ontology , spatio-temporal hypothesis management, and efficient hybrid inference algorithms. The proposed tools and technologies naturally support the expansion of the current level 2 fusion to level 3 and level 4 approaches that project situation assessments to function in a distributed, net-centric environment.

Date
2006 - 2008

Name
Ativa

Where
CGU

Description
Ativa is a computational information system designed to support the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General in handling information from its operations, like auditing and control. The objective of the system is to structure the information produced during the typical phases of planning, execution, and monitoring of control actions performed by the Office. The system is designed to provide a substantial boost in productivity in terms of usability and a comprehensive control over the data and procedures used internally by the system, as well as an improved agility in terms of maintenance, with a consequent decrease in maintainability costs when compared with the current system.

Date
2005 - 2008

Name
Information Management System (SGI)

Where
CGU

Description
System responsible for handling some internal administrative activities for the Federal Government Executive Branch’s Internal Control Agency. It deals with protocols transactions, documents numerations, and others internal activities.

Date
2004 - 2007

Name
Indians Work Center Integrated Management Program Development

Where
CJR

Description
Development of a system responsible for activities management and control and also for countable and financier information control for the enterprise Indians Work Center. The main technologies used were J2EE, Struts and Hibernate.

Date
2004 - 2005

Name
SecurityCam Development

Where
CJR

Description
Development of the SecurityCam system, today known as IPeye. IPeye is a system for visualizing, recording and controling IP cameras. The system can be used through the website www.ipeye.com.br or by the IPeye Mobile that gives access through a mobile phone that has the JVM inside. The main technologies used were J2SE, RMI, JMF and Swing.

Date
2004 - 2005

Name
CBMAE Portal

Where
CACB

Description
Web project developed in .NET for helping the process of enterprise mediation and arbitration. This project was focused in auditing and homologating this system for the CACB enterprise.

Date
2004 - 2005

Name
Empreender Portal

Where
CACB

Description
Web project developed in J2EE for management, data collection, information sharing, communication, and integration of the agents of many enterprises involved in the project. This project was focused in auditing and homologating this system for the CACB enterprise.

Date
2004 - 2005

Name
IT Infrastructure Maintenance Project for CACB

Where
CACB

Description
Project for IT restructuring and maintenance for the enterprise CACB.

Date
2004 - 2004

Name
SecurityCam GUI Development

Where
CJR

Description
Development of the SecurityCam GUI, today known as IPeye. IPeye is a system for visualizing, recording and controlling IP cameras. The system can be used through the website www.ipeye.com.br or by the IPeye Mobile that gives access through a mobile phone that has the JVM inside. The main technologies used were J2SE, Swing, and Design Patterns.

Date
2004 - 2004

Name
Indians Work Center Integrated Management Program Design

Where
CJR

Description
Design and gathering of requirements of a system responsible for activities management and control and also for countable and financier information control for the enterprise Indians Work Center. The main technologies used were UML, Design Patterns, and UP.

Date
2004 - 2004

Name
SecurityCam Design

Where
CJR

Description
Design and gathering of requirements of the SecurityCam system, today known as IPeye. IPeye is a system for visualizing, recording and controlling IP cameras. The system can be used through the website www.ipeye.com.br or by the IPeye Mobile that gives access through a mobile phone that has the JVM inside. The main technologies used were UML, Design Patterns, and UP.

Date
2002 - 2003

Name
Framework and API for Intelligent Systems Design Based on Influence Diagram and Multiple Sectioned Bayesian Network

Where
UNB

Description
Research and development in artificial intelligence. Development of Influence Diagram and Multiple Sectioned Bayesian Network algorithms. An extension for the UnBBayes API and Framework.

Date
2002 - 2003

Name
UnBBayes with Support for Intranet/Internet and Wireless Devices - UnBBayesServer

Where
UNB

Description
An extension for the UnBBayes Bayesian package. The main objective was to allow access to the UnBBayes reasoning system for Internet / Intranet accesses and wireless devices. This was the continuation of the UnBBayes project, creating a server to make the major UnBBayes functions available to the Internet / Intranet accesses and XML-Based wireless devices. The main technologies used were UML, Design Patterns, J2EE, EJB, MySQL, and Tomcat.

Date
2002 - 2002

Name
e-Sec

Where
Mirante

Description
Development and management of a system for the security enterprise eSec - www.esec.com.br. The main technologies used were Design Patterns, and J2EE.

Date
2002 - 2002

Name
LINFCA

Where
UNB

Description
Development of a system responsible for booking students and employees, people and patrimonial management, and access control for the IT laboratory for the IT Department of the University of Brasília – UnB. The main technologies used were Python, Design Patterns, and J2EE.

Date
2002 - 2002

Name
Search, DETRAN-DF

Where
Mirante

Description
Development and management of a system developed for the Search enterprise. This enterprise works for the Federal District Department of Transit.

Date
2001 - 2002

Name
Probabilistic Reasoning Applied for Medical Diagnostics

Where
UNB

Description
Extension for the UnBBayes API and Framework with new algorithms.

Date
2001 - 2001

Name
UnBBayes API and Framework

Where
UNB

Description
Translation of the UnBBayes API and Framework from Delphi to Java. The tool and algorithms were optimized using performance tuning. The GUI was also enhanced using Swing. This project has the goal to help the process of making decisions through the use of probabilistic reasoning. The open source software, UnBBayes, is available in http://unbbayes.sourceforge.net and it has multi-lingual support.

Date
2001 - 2001

Name
CODEVASF

Where
Mirante

Description
Development of a new site for the geoprocessing public agency Codevasf – www.codevasf.gov.br . The main technologies used were J2EE, and SQL Server.

Date
2001 - 2001

Name
Develox

Where
Mirante

Description
System for development and specification support for the Mirante enterprise. The main technologies used were JSP, Servlet, JDBC, PL/SQL, SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8i, and MD5.

Date
2001 - 2001

Name
SAPL

Where
Interlegis

Description
Web development of a system for the automation of the legislative council throughout Brazil. The main technologies used were Zope, Python, HTML, and Javascript.

contact: rommel.carvalho@gmail.com - George Mason University (GMU)